Re: [Gimp-developer] GEGL make error - Fedora 27

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Elle,

g++ is the C++ compiler. In your case, it's installed on your system.

Thanks,
Partha

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>
wrote:

> On 03/08/2018 09:58 AM, Partha Bagchi wrote:
>
> > It says g++ not found. What happens when you
> > type g++ in your GIMP shell environment?
>
> Hi Partha - thanks! that was interesting. I didn't have a clue what "g++"
> might be, but here's what happened when I typed it into a terminal:
>
> $ g++
> g++: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
>
> Which seemed mysterious. So I asked Gentoo to tell me which package this
> "g++" thing was part of:
>
> $ equery belongs g++
>  * Searching for g++ ...
> sys-devel/gcc-6.4.0-r1 (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/6.4.0/g++ ->
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++)
>
> I always thought of "gcc" as the "gnu c compiler". But apparently that's
> no longer the case, instead "gcc" now stands for "gnu compiler collection",
> which includes c++:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.2/gcc/G_002b_002b-and-GCC.html
>
> Best,
> Elle
>
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